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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 919 Seize the Day, by Saul Bellow (read 17 Sep 1967) I have never found a Bellow book I enjoyed, and this volume is no exception. (  ) Schmerguls | Oct 19, 2009 |  Liked the subjects (despair, freedom, money, family, truth) and the story was OK, but it didn't grip me. Wouldn't recommend to anyone. Perhaps it was more moving when it first came out in 1956. (  ) stevepaun | Jul 15, 2009 | Awful... Couldn't even finish it and it is only a hundred or so pages... ( ) jlouise77 | Jul 10, 2009 | I really enjoyed the first half of this novella, but the second, dominated by the annoying Dr. Tamkin, was harder to like. Tamkin is not only profoundly distasteful himself, but he manages to make the already pathetic protagonist Wilhelm even more unappealing. Still, Bellow is able to create a kind of relentless downward spiral that is admirable in its effect. (  ) joshberg | Mar 22, 2009 | Here's what I learned from this book: do not trust shysters named Tamkin. Also, it sucks to be a former movie-wanna-be whose looks have faded. (  ) nlerud | Mar 7, 2009 | 
 It is the intense world of the ordinary, the mean daily detail, the outrage of being alive, the existential sense of one's self as human creature, which is bravely at the center of Mr. Bellow's fiction. Each detail is cruel, plain, irremediable, yet one feels that it is about to burst forth into the radiance of consciousness.
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